TikToker Who Threatened Trump with Violent Video Faces Legal Consequences

A Georgia man has been sentenced to over three years in prison for making threats against former President Donald Trump on TikTok. The 30-year-old, Jauan Rashun Porter, was convicted of posting explicit threats detailing how he intended to shoot the president.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge William M. Ray II sentenced Porter to three years and five months in a federal prison. This decision follows Porter’s agreement to a plea deal with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, wherein he admitted guilt to one count of transmitting interstate threats.

“Threatening the life of the president is an egregious crime that we cannot ignore,” commented U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg in a statement. “The Constitution does not protect acts of political violence, and we remain committed to collaborating with our federal partners to identify and prosecute those who make such threats.”

The criminal complaint revealed that on July 26, 2025, Porter participated in a TikTok livestream titled “Alligator Alcatraz” that centered on the president. Under the username “@jj572851,” Porter made multiple threats to assassinate the President of the United States.

According to the criminal complaint, Porter joined a TikTok livestream about the president called “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 26, 2025. During the livestream, Porter used the handle “@jj572851” to make “numerous threats to assassinate POTUS.”

Only seconds after joining the livestream, Porter wrote: “So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.”

Over the next few minutes, he continued making posts similarly expressing his desire to kill the president. Such comments included the following posts:

• “I’m gonna kill Donald Trump. I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead.”
• “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die.”
• “It’ll be on the news . . . his rally is coming up pretty soon and I’m going there and I’m going to put a bullet in his head.”
• “I’mma load up a rifle [and] sit inside . . . an abandoned building . . . and when he approaches the rally . . . I’m gonna put one . . . if not the face then I might put one exactly in his chest.”
• “He [POTUS] deserves to be in the ground . . . Certain people on this planet deserve to be in the ground and he’s one of them.”

At one point in the video, the host asked Porter if he thought he was exhibiting “normal behavior,” and Porter responded by saying “normal behavior would be speaking on something and then doing it.”

Due to the nature of Porter’s comments, a recording of the livestream was subsequently forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service for investigation.

Secret Service agents interviewed Porter and explained to him that TikTok had provided investigators with account holder information for his username. After initially denying that he was behind the comments, Porter eventually confessed to “issuing the threats on the livestream” and “acknowledged the seriousness” of his actions.

Porter’s live-in girlfriend told investigators that he had mentioned the incident to her and she remembered warning him about making such threats and “the seriousness with which the government takes them.” She added that Porter “frequently spent time online ‘trolling’ in a similar manner,” saying such activity was “a social outlet for him.”